can you remove the BRIGHT blue border around active windows?


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@Bawx Sorry I cant show you a screen shot now as I just removed the blue lines :)

@Lenin91 Thanks for the fix its working perfectly! :)

To be perfectly honest I was hoping not to do any patching, but its done now so thanks again!

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Right click on the desktop and click on Personalize. Click on Windows Color and Appearance, then click on "Open classic appearance properties for more color options".

In the Appearance Settings window, click on Advanced.

Hit the dropdown for Border Padding, and you can take it all the way down to zreo, which will give you bare minimum border. After you have it set, hit OK and/or Apply when necessary to close out back to your desktop.

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I noticed it immediately and I can see both sides of this discussion - but I say: why do you even care? Really, is it worth complaining about? Here are some more serious problems:

- NVIDIA = crappy Vista drivers,

- Creative = crappy drivers for everything,

- WPF/.NET3 applications take too long to initialise,

- Stupid JAVA causes problems with Aero,

- Microsoft's Vista advertising campaign has been so far pretty poor, and the public are confused about it,

- The press are making unfairly attacking Vista (mainly because journos use Macs),

- Apple couldn't make iTunes work with Vista in the 6+ months they had (or they are doing it on purpose),

- The first batch of Vista PC's we recieved from OEMs (HP, Acer, etc) took a half hour each to setup, and some of the Acer machines had bad activation and needed to be activated by customers,

OK... So the blue line does match Vista's blue glow behind buttons and etc, which means it does fit-in graphically - but it doesn't really need to be there. If anything, it probably clutters the window frames more than it improves them. But as I said, it's not the most pressing issue with Vista... or the world.

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^^ I care because i can do somthing about it, its gone now. :)

And Yes its not a big issue but it is still a issue for some and by sharing it a solution has been highlighted!

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I noticed it immediately and I can see both sides of this discussion - but I say: why do you even care? Really, is it worth complaining about? Here are some more serious problems:

- NVIDIA = crappy Vista drivers,

- Creative = crappy drivers for everything,

- WPF/.NET3 applications take too long to initialise,

- Stupid JAVA causes problems with Aero,

- Microsoft's Vista advertising campaign has been so far pretty poor, and the public are confused about it,

- The press are making unfairly attacking Vista (mainly because journos use Macs),

- Apple couldn't make iTunes work with Vista in the 6+ months they had (or they are doing it on purpose),

- The first batch of Vista PC's we recieved from OEMs (HP, Acer, etc) took a half hour each to setup, and some of the Acer machines had bad activation and needed to be activated by customers,

OK... So the blue line does match Vista's blue glow behind buttons and etc, which means it does fit-in graphically - but it doesn't really need to be there. If anything, it probably clutters the window frames more than it improves them. But as I said, it's not the most pressing issue with Vista... or the world.

your right, but starting yet another thread about how there is no sli support or crappy drivers for this or that, this thread actually prompted a fix.

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Right click on the desktop and click on Personalize. Click on Windows Color and Appearance, then click on "Open classic appearance properties for more color options".

In the Appearance Settings window, click on Advanced.

Hit the dropdown for Border Padding, and you can take it all the way down to zreo, which will give you bare minimum border. After you have it set, hit OK and/or Apply when necessary to close out back to your desktop.

Hey it worked! Even if it's set to 1 you can still see it if you look close enough. On 0 it's barely noticeable.

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Right click on the desktop and click on Personalize. Click on Windows Color and Appearance, then click on "Open classic appearance properties for more color options".

In the Appearance Settings window, click on Advanced.

Hit the dropdown for Border Padding, and you can take it all the way down to zreo, which will give you bare minimum border. After you have it set, hit OK and/or Apply when necessary to close out back to your desktop.

Thanks! Much better!

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I tried the modded msstyle but it just doesn't look right... Dunno, i'm so used to the blue border that i can't miss it anymore...

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